Needle-threading device.



E.P.PETRO NEEDLE THREADING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 13. I917.

Patented Sept. 17, 1918..

- ment in Needle-Threading liens r ELIEER' E. RETRO, 0F SYLVAN LAKE, ALBERTA, CANADA.

NEEDLE-THREADING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented Sept. 17, 1%38.

Application filed October 13, 1917. Serial No. 186,483.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Emma P. Pn'rno, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Sylvan Lake, in the Province of Alberta and Dominion of Canada, have invented a certain new and useful Improve Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a device for facilitating the threading of needles, and has for an object to provide a support for a magnifying glass which may be held in a hand which simultaneously supports the its thread or needle.

The invention further aims at the provision of a device which may be formed upon thehandles of a pairof shears in such manner that when the handles of the shears are grasped in the usual manner the device is retained at the desired angle for viewing the eye of the needle and the point of the thread as magnified; and to provide a device which is so mounted upon the handle of the shears as to hold the latter in position when resting on a support for readyvinsertion of the fingers.

The above, and various other objects and advantages of this invention will be in part described and in part understood, from the following detailed description of the prescnt preferred embodiment, the same being illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device constructed according to the present invention and as applied to one handle of a pair of shears.

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the shears resting on a table or other support, and showing the device of the invention holding the shears intilted position for easy grasping.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the inner end of the shears showing the device attached thereto and holding the shears in raised tilted position.

Referring to this drawing, the invention comprises a frame or rim 10 which may be of circular or other desired configuration, and which supports therein a magnifying lens ll.

Th frame 10 may be attached to or integrally formed with the handle A. of a pair of shears which. in conjunction with the opposite handle B, is adapted to be grasped by the thumb and fingers of one hand. 'lhe handles It. and E are adapted to be grasped '11 will be turned and in the usual manner for supporting and operating the shears, and when grasped in such manner this holds the rim 10 in position to magnify or enlarge the view of a needle or endof thread which may be held between the thumb and fingers after the latter have been inserted through the loops of the handles A and B.

To facilitate the inspection of the needle C, shown in Fig. l, and the end or point of the thread D, also shown in Fig. 1, the rim 10 projects at an angle oblique from the plane of the handles A and B, and which inclines toward the free ends of the fingers supporting the handles of the shears. lhe focal axis of the lens 11 is therefore in direct line with the ends of the thumb and fingers which hold the shears, and when the hand is raised before the face in the usual manner of examining. the needle and thread, the lens held in the correct position.

The arrangement of the frame or rim 10 at this angle also serves the purpose of holding the shears, when resting upon a table or oth'er'support, in partly raised and tilted positions, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The finger loops of the handles A and B are therefore held clear of the support and the thumb and fingers may be readily engaged downwardly through the loops without the necessity of first lifting the shears in the other hand and subsequently applying the thumb and fingers of the first hand therethrough.

The attachment therefore not only serves to support the shears in position to be readily grasped, but also is held and supported in the correct position for viewing the needle and thread by merely holding the shears in the usual manner;

It is of course understood that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described device without departing from the spirit of the invention, and being restricted only by the scope of the following claims.

1 claim:

1. Zlhe combination with a pair of shears having a pair handles adapted to be grasped in the hand, of a frame carried upon one of the handles, and a magnifying lens mounted in said frame, said frame extending at an angle to the plane of the handles of the shears suihcient to aiine the longiits ject held between the fin shears.

gers supporting the 2. The combination with a pair of shears 5 having grasped'by the of a lens carried by one the usual handles adapted to be fingers in the usual manner,

of the handles and projecting at an angle thereto and adapted to engage a support for holding the handles in a raised, tilted position for easy grasping 10 when the shears are not in use, the lens being arranged at an angle to also aline the longitudinal focal axis of the lens on an object held between the fingers of the hand supporting the shears.

ELMER P, PETRO. 

